{"id":3048,"date":"2009-02-24T09:27:57","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T17:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wapreview.com\/?p=3048"},"modified":"2020-10-01T14:02:13","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T21:02:13","slug":"usgovxml-big-govenment-data-mobile-mashup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/3048\/","title":{"rendered":"USGovXML &#8211; Big Government Data Mobile Mashup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"USGovXML.com mobile web homepage\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/usgovxml.jpg\" alt=\"USGovXML.com mobile web homepage\" width=\"184\" height=\"228\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The US government makes an enormous amount of data available for free as downloadable XML files and through Web based APIs .&nbsp; There&#8217;s a comprehensive listing of government data sources and tips for using them at <a href=\"http:\/\/usgovxml.com\">usgovxml.com<\/a>. Many of these data sources could easily be turned into useful web and mobile web services.<\/p>\n<p>USGovXML.com&nbsp; has created a collection of sample mobile mashups using a small subset of the available US government data services at&nbsp; <a title=\"mobile site\" href=\"http:\/\/usgovxml.com\/mobile\/\">usgovxml.com\/mobile<\/a>. There&#8217;s a huge amount of information available on that site which includes the following mobile lookups.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gazetteer: A geographic dictionary that provides latitude and longitude information for many places throughout the U.S..<\/li>\n<li>Proximity: Find the distance to the nearest wetland with map.<\/li>\n<li>Elevation: Provides the elevation of a particular point and a map.<\/li>\n<li>Station: Shows water quality monitoring stations within a geographic area on a map.<\/li>\n<li>CO-OPS: Tide, current, water level and other coastal oceanographic information.<\/li>\n<li>NDFD: Extremely detailed weather forecast data from the National Weather Service\u2019s digital forecast database.<\/li>\n<li>UV Index: Predicts the next day\u2019s ultraviolet radiation levels.<\/li>\n<li>Web Tools: Zip code lookup, address verification and the determination of which city is in a particular zip code.<\/li>\n<li>SBSS: Returns a firm&#8217;s 8(a), HUB Zone and SDB certification status from the Small Business Administration&#8217;s database.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The site is optimized for Mobile Internet Explorer but is usable in other full-web mobile web browsers including Opera Mobile and Mini, Webkit and Safari.<\/p>\n<p><em>Filed in<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/index.php?id=131\">Wap Review Directory &#8211; Reference<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Ratings:<\/em> Content:&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/sm-blue-star.gif\" alt=\"*\" width=\"15\" height=\"13\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/sm-blue-star.gif\" alt=\"*\" width=\"15\" height=\"13\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/sm-blue-star.gif\" alt=\"*\" width=\"15\" height=\"13\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/sm-blue-star.gif\" alt=\"*\" width=\"15\" height=\"13\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/blue-starOL.gif\" alt=\"*\" width=\"15\" height=\"13\"\/> Usability:&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/sm-red-star.gif\" alt=\"X\" width=\"15\" height=\"13\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/sm-red-star.gif\" alt=\"X\" width=\"15\" height=\"13\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/sm-red-star.gif\" alt=\"X\" width=\"15\" height=\"13\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/sm-red-star.gif\" alt=\"X\" width=\"15\" height=\"13\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"_\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/red-starOL.gif\" alt=\"_\" width=\"15\" height=\"13\"\/><\/p>\n<p><em>Ready.mobi Score:<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/ready.mobi\/results.jsp?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fusgovxml.com%2Fmobile%2F&amp;locale=en_EN\">3 &#8220;Fair&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Mobile Link<\/span>: <a title=\"mobile site\" href=\"http:\/\/usgovxml.com\/mobile\/\">usgovxml.com\/mobile<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US government makes an enormous amount of data available for free as downloadable XML files and through Web based APIs .&nbsp; There&#8217;s a comprehensive listing of government data sources and tips for using them at usgovxml.com. Many of these data sources could easily be turned into useful web and mobile web services. USGovXML.com&nbsp; has created a collection of sample mobile mashups using a small subset of the available US government data services at&nbsp; usgovxml.com\/mobile. There&#8217;s a huge amount of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/3048\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[629,148,628,1441],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3048"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3048"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22283,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3048\/revisions\/22283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}